Well, more that she was told by the guy with the Gyaradose (Whos name escapes me at the moment) THat lobsters were baby mister fish, I think. Anyway…. yeah, that’s the idea. And I stand by R on this one. “Rock Baby Mr Fish.” would be funnier.

Man, his last three were B52 and you didn’t use the common nickname for that plane?
Come on, how would BUFF not be appropriate for this circumstance?
Shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame

Neither is the B-52. It’s profile is actually relatively low and narrow. It’s just a heavy jet aircraft that has a huge wingspan. The name BUFF would make sense on the surface as the Commander is buff as all get out, but the acronym would be a good jab at the whole B52 serial number and serve as a funny twist. Kind of like the endearing insulting nickname we give friends and all.

I would go out on a limb and say that WAY more people are likely to get the B52’s reference than the airplane one. My husband’s a pilot and I didn’t even get that. Who knows if Kelly even knew that in the first place?

Yeah but I think all of the reasons were on the commanders side of things, like, something would happen and it would be becuase of him, related to time travel. And eventually she was just like “Forget this mess.” I’d have to go back and check it out to make sure, like absolutely sure, but I’m pretty sure when the commander goes back in time to steal his coffee back, that’s when he says something about it.

You forget, Commander isnt ACTUALLY genetically engineered, they revealed a while back that he’s just a soldier who got picked for a particular image. The thing about him being made from American soil and steak was just something he told Jonesy to screw with her.

Genetically engineered does not mean synthetic manufacture. I highly doubt a future advanced enough to have time travel wouldn’t have genetic manipulation down like the alphabet. Rearrange a few strands of DNA, insert some extra stuff for enhanced healing and thicker skin and better homeostatic mechanisms so as to allow him to be comfortable in a wider range of climates… “Soldier Boosts” as sometimes referred to in more conventional sci-fi. Obviously in the future they have medical screening processes to prevent these ‘boosts’ from being inherited naturally, but if his wife is a 20th/21st-century woman and the kids were born in ‘modern’ times, such technology would not exist… though going into Labor would be a -GREAT- distraction from Time Travel, so I think I just answered my own question.

Actually, any soldier-boosts probably wouldn’t be possible to inherit, since they’d be on the somatic level—i.e., the cells of his body. Changes made to the genes of his body cells wouldn’t affect his germ-line cells (the spermatozoa), so they wouldn’t be passed onto his kids. On the flip side, though, somatic genetic manipulation is much easier to use and fix than germ-line manipulation, mainly because you won’t get glitches showing up further down the line.

pretty sure at some point Commander badass said him and his fellow soldiers were made out of dirt and AAA steaks. and that because of stupid reason to go to war his immage got changed form one of a generic soldier to the look he has right now.

Wow you are a closed-minded, bigoted, prejudice motherfucker aren’t you?
Last I checked, the whiniest percentage of the population was cisgender, white, heterosexual people that feel entitled to their ‘right’ to shit on others because they’re scared of anything they don’t know about.

Newsflash, giving a minority the same level of respect you would give anyone else isn’t catering, it’s being a decent person. Which you, by the way, are not.

The “B52” mentioned in panel 6 is referring to an 80s band called The B-52s (yes, after the bomber [specifically, a hair style that resembles the aircraft’s nose cone]). “Rock Lobster” and “Love Shack” are two of the songs they did (former their debut single, the latter probably one of their better known songs among those who know anything of them at all).

Uuuurgh… Because you mentioned references in the archives I had to go back through them and look. My answer: none. I couldn’t find any. Well done for getting me to read through the entire comic again though. Well played.

Well I do remember his mug had a lobster on it in that comic about why the comic was late, which then caused me to procrastinate on my homework for a while with that burrito bison thing. Other than that none popped to mind immediately, though someone mentioned baby mister fish and that was a lobster so I guess that’s one. Now I’m gonna have to go back and look for stuff.

Yeah, but as people have pointed out before when it’s been pointed out technically a baby mr. fish would be a magikarp, I was referring to the strip described below. I don’t care if the lobster was blue, I still think it counts, but I’d need Coelasquid to verify before I 100% trust one view or the other.

It was the Commander’s daughter who thought lobsters were “baby Mr. Fish” because Jared fooled her into thinking so. So she tried to wrestle a lobster to freedom, one that was supposed to be dinner for the family. Mr Fish was a Magikarp when he was a baby, not a lobster.

He’s probably not the head of Torgue Corporation anymore considering that the canonical ending of the Badass Crater of Badassitude plotline had him being arrested because ‘HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT ILLEGALLY ORGANIZING AN ILLEGAL OFFWORLD FIGHTING RING WAS ILLEGAL.’

That explains so much. I don’t suppose there’s a possibility of that being remedied? Or if anyone knows what too fast actually is so I can space my comments out appropriately? I’m pretty sure once or twice it wasn’t a glitch that I got that page ^_^;

So gone through the first two years of archives, so far the only reference to Lobster I’ve noticed is the kids playing with a lobster and Commander B talking to his wife on the phone asking if this was her idea.

Naw, that’s Ace, this is Angel Eyes. Ace is supposed to look more like a squirrely Daniel Dae Kim and Angel Eyes like Lady!Lee van Cleef but I haven’t had a chance to really sit down and get their designs right so they drift back and forth a lot. Ace is smaller, Angel’s like female bodybuilder hueg.

Do they have uniforms? I thought they marketed individuals, like living GI Joes with their own action figures.

Anyway, rock lobsters can be red. Before cooking, I mean. And we do associate lobsters (both spiny and true) with the color red. Yeah, the reference is a song, but why not weave the song, the rock lobster family, the color and the serial number together?

Everyone is so caught up in the “Rock Lobster’s” name that noone seemed to notice that between the first 2 panels he folded an origami crane behind his head, mid conversation. Straight not giving a damn.

And thats All I can find…so thats 5 obvious lobsters, 1 possibly lobster shaped shadow, and 13 shark cameos that have only the fact that they are also a sea creature as possible evidence for being part of the Rock Lobster Reference, and one probably reference to the lyrics of the song that does not per se have any direct connection to the commander other than it was his idea.

I thought the shark toy was just Sammy’s shark toy, he always has it, I don’t think there’s a single comic that involves him but not the shark toy. *shrug* But you missed his vanity plate and his mug from the burrito bison strip.

Yeah I realized later when she posted on tumblr about the vanity plate that I had missed it, but I did get the burrito bison strip mug, its 6th from the bottom.

As for the shark toy, like I said, its a stretch to try and consider them part of the reference when the only link is that both creatures live in the sea, and Sammy is the Commander’s son. I only included them since its not an impossibility that they are part of the reference.

It’s quite simple really, trends tend to loop, so eventually they looped so much that the bands started playing the old songs under the exact same name as the original bands, thinking that they had come up with the song themselves. Well that and the whole time travel thing.

I must have reread this entire comic from page one to now(ish) about five or six times since I found it a month or so ago, and every time it gets deeper and more involved. How far down does the rabbit hole go?

Either way, this is definitely one of my favorite comics ever- and I’m a compulsive welcoming reader.

I just had a weird thought. Commander can meet his own Great-Great-Great-Great-Great…and-so-on-Grand-Childs sinde he has kids in the past…isn’t that weird ? Considering they can be the same age as him? I mean you are born into the future and grow up with your own offspring….thats really a fucked up thought. Even more fucked up if he kinda got into a relationship with a girl from that offspring.

You know, even if Rock Lobster is more humble than Love Shack. I could still think of many innuendos to go with Rock Lobster. Not posting them. But geez, manor front property in the gutter is looking awfully nice about now.

Woah, am I the only person tripping on the fact that he can accurately fold a freaking paper crane with gloves on? I mean holy cow! That is dexterity if I ever saw it. Also, the androgynous-looking uniform is a man, as per the comic, so a man it shall be. Geez…

So, one thing that hasn’t been clarified yet: in the comic in which part of Commander’s serial number is first revealed, the only letters we see are D, E, and B. Are serial numbers hex dumps (base 16), or any alphanumeric characters (base 36)?